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Can LLMs have an "accent" like second language speakers?
I'm not sure how to best characterize what I just experienced with Opus 5 but my attempt to describe it, and hopefully this doesn't offend anyone, is that it "spoke" with an "accent" to me.
By speaking I don't mean voice mode, but it wrote the following and I will omit for brevity:
"... stuff ... dry-run ... more stuff"
"... 死run ... stuff"
I had to lookup what 死 was because I don't speak chinese, and I found it means "die" and I thought it was too weird of a coincidence because in foreigners accent I have heard "dry" sound like "die" before.
Am I crazy? Who wants to take a crack at this
- keiferski 3mo agoI get strange little bugs like this all the time. I don't think it's an accent, just a bug.
- hmokiguess 3mo agoCan you share some of yours? My calling of it an “accent” was more on the lines of this perhaps being a feature of language and how it’s encoded in latent spaces, I wonder if “fixing it” is not necessarily helpful in terms of knowledge representation. Not sure I’m making any sense tbh, philosophizing here
- keiferski 3mo agoSometimes it will make the title of a conversation in a random language (like Spanish) even though it has nothing to do with the language. Other times it just adds random Chinese or Russian characters.
- buildinext 3mo agointeresting...some models are claiming accent either input or output i've noticed.
- PaiDxng 3mo ago[dead]